Sometimes yeast ends up in the popular press, typically to report on an interesting application or discovery. We are trying to keep track of these stories so people can find a list of them all in one place – a search engine should be able to find the article with the information listed below. If you notice an article that we don’t have listed, please let us know.
“How Two Young Scientists Built a $250 Million Business Using Yeast to Clean Up Wastewater”
Alex Knapp
Forbes, July 6, 2020
“Ancient Egyptian Yeast Is This Bread’s Secret Ingredient”
Jacey Fortin
NY Times, August 8, 2019
“This Beer is Brewed With Yeast From and 1886 Shipwreck”
Bridget Hallinan
Food and Wine, March 18, 2019
“Scientists Brew Cannabis Using Hacked Beer Yeast”
Elie Dolgin
Nature, February 27, 2019
“An Entirely Synthetic Yeast Genome is Nearly Complete”
Carl Engelking
Discover, March 9, 2017
“Scientists create ‘designer life’ in major step to synthetic life”
Sarah Kaplan
The Washington Post, March 9, 2017
“An Enormous Shape-Shifting Artwork – Run By Yeast”
Simon Ings
New Scientist, October 19, 2016
“Stanford researchers genetically engineer yeast to produce opioids”
Tom Abate
Stanford News, August 13, 2015
“Scientists create first ‘designer chromosome'”
Traci Watson
USA Today, March 27, 2014
“Yeast: Love and Fear, Death and Beer”
John-Manuel Androite
The Atlantic, May 13, 2013
“Lab Yeast Make Evolutionary Leap to Multicellularity”
Bob Holmes
New Scientist, June 22, 2011
“Bubbles, Bread and Beer”
Olivia Judson
Opinionator, NY Times, June 22, 2010
“The Rise of Yeast”
Christopher Beam
Slate, May 6, 2009
“How yeast is helping us to understand Parkinson’s Disease”
Garvan Institute of Medical Research media release, February 27, 2009
“Yeast Research May Boost Ethanol Production”
K.C. Jaehnig
Southern Illinois University Carbondale News March 14, 2007